Happy Birthday to the Late GREAT Russ Heath!!!

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Russ Heath (top left) and a dynamic action scene from G.I. Joe #24 (1984) and equally dynamic action from a 1970s ad for Roman toy soldiers.

When and What He Did at Timely/Atlas/Marvel: Artist from the late 1940s through the 1950s.

Marvel-ous Accomplishments: When superheroes fell out of fashion at the end of the 1940s, comics publishers concentrated on other genres, such as science-fiction, romance, horror, westerns, and war stories.
Russ Heath excelled in these areas during the ‘50s while still being versatile enough to draw superhero stories, too, illustrating such Marvel/Timely/Atlas titles as War Adventures, Journey Into Unknown Worlds and Adventures Into Terror. But for Marvel readers of a certain age, Heath is best known for artfully illustrating a 1984 G.I. Joe comic that had its own TV commercial and for a beautifully rendered ad for toy Roman soldiers that was better drawn than most of the comics it appeared in.

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Wild Midnight



From Marc Spector: Moon Knight #4 Sep 1989 art by Russ Heath

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The Whistle Blower



From Punisher #26 Nov 1989 art by Russ Heath

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The Mortal Iron Fist



From Immortal Iron Fist #20 Jan 2009 art by Russ Heath

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Russ Heath on Hero Initiative

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Episode 87: In Memoriam-Heath, Severin & Friedrich

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Artist Russ Heath on Batman! Golden Age War/Western Legend Does Superheroes!

Legendary artist Russ Heath passed away on 8/23/18 after a 60 year career,
but in 2005 he talked about his rare superhero work on Batman and his favorite Dark Knight artists Alex Ross and Neal Adams!

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Character model sheets for
Pryde of the X-Men

Magneto 6'10, Lockheed, Dazzler, White Queen and Cyclops already a couple? Professor X, Blob and Juggernaut a non-mutant?

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Kitty, Storm 5'9 Pyro, Wolverine, Nightcrawler 5'2 Toad and Colossus

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Character model sheets backside

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Colossus model sheet

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Wolverine model sheet

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Nightcrawler model sheet

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Professor X model sheet